The Docusaurus gists plugin adds a page to your Docusaurus instance, displaying all public gists of a GitHub user. docusaurus-plugin-content-gists versions prior to 4.0.0 are vulnerable to exposing GitHub Personal Access Tokens in production build artifacts when passed through plugin configuration options. The token, intended for build-time API access only, is inadvertently included in client-side JavaScript bundles, making it accessible to anyone who can view the website's source code. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.0.0.
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Thu, 10 Jul 2025 16:15:00 +0000

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Description The Docusaurus gists plugin adds a page to your Docusaurus instance, displaying all public gists of a GitHub user. docusaurus-plugin-content-gists versions prior to 4.0.0 are vulnerable to exposing GitHub Personal Access Tokens in production build artifacts when passed through plugin configuration options. The token, intended for build-time API access only, is inadvertently included in client-side JavaScript bundles, making it accessible to anyone who can view the website's source code. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.0.0.
Title docusaurus-plugin-content-gists Exposes GitHub Personal Access Token
Weaknesses CWE-200
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 10, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published: 2025-07-09T21:08:14.595Z

Updated: 2025-07-10T15:18:11.559Z

Reserved: 2025-07-07T14:20:38.388Z

Link: CVE-2025-53624

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-07-10T15:18:00.512Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-07-09T21:15:27.953

Modified: 2025-07-10T13:17:30.017

Link: CVE-2025-53624

cve-icon Redhat

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